-5th-
After incredible labor, lifting, heaving
and a double quantity of swearing
we are off!! On the bar for 32 +
hours - just a short distance
above Washington Creek - Mt. Washington
Passed the Louise & 3 barges at
Charley Creek. Reached Circle City
at 3 oclock - saw Edgar & Lizzie. Mr.
& Mrs. Claypool & children & Mr. Cowles
Mr. Hamilton, &c. At supper with
Edgar & Lizzie. Mrs. Smith & daughter
came aboard for down river
-6th-
We struck another sandbar in the
night - 5 hours and off. Passed the
Light-" (John P), and the "Lightning" just
above Ft. Yukon - one seemed on the
bar and out of her course, the other
tied by the woodyard and waiting for
her. Reached Ft. Yukon before